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Putting Pants on Philip

192719 minUnited States
Comedy

Synopsis

An American uncle meets his Scottish nephew and tries to make him conform to local expectations. The visitor's kilt and pursuit of women repeatedly embarrass his guardian, whose proposed solution is a visit to a tailor.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
19:57
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Clyde Bruckman · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsClyde Bruckman

Historical context

The short belongs to the period when Laurel and Hardy were becoming a regular team. Here they play named characters outside the familiar Stan and Ollie pairing, with some scenes filmed around the Culver Hotel.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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